In Re Interest of Witherspoon

*756This is a proceeding to terminate the parental rights of an unmarried father. The District Court terminated the father’s parental rights and the father has appealed.

James Witherspoon was born December 18,1976. His mother and his father, the appellant here, were unmarried. The parents lived together for some undisclosed period of time after the birth of the child, but the relationship was a stormy one, and by sometime early in 1978 they were living apart and the son remained with his mother. The father provided some support for the son during the time they were living together but did not…